Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, to a Palestinian family. She attended Beirut University College, and came to Britain as a student in the mid-1970s. Throughout the 1980s, she held a number of artist's residencies in Britain, Canada and the United tates. Until 1988 Hatoum worked mainly with video and performance. Since 1989 she has concentrated on making installations, notably Light Sentence. She has had solo exhibitions at the Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, the Arnolfini, Bristol and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, as well as at a number of venues across Canada. In 1995 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery. Her publications include Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma. She lives in London. Read More Read Less